Srinagar, March 29 (IANS) Director, Shere-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, Dr A.G. Ahanger on Sunday appealed to people not to pay heed to unverified reports attributed to him on social media about the spread of coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir.

A message, which is being circulated on social networking sites attributing Director SKIMS to have said that corona cases in Kashmir would increase and then decline.

The Director SKIMS in an official statement issued here said that this message is sheer imagination and has not been communicated by the Director himself or his office.

--IANS zi/prs